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News-Spot | Business News | Apr 22, 2016
Founders of RAYLASE Receive EPIC Phoenix Award 2016 that Recognizes Entrepreneurship in Photonics
Founders of RAYLASE Receive EPIC Phoenix Award 2016 that Recognizes Entrepreneurship in Photonics RAYLASE Group has its headquarters in Weßling, Germany and a subsidiary in China, located in Shenzhen. Both entities are doing production of components, submodules and software to deflect, modulate and control laser beams in a broad variety of applications e.g. marking, drilling, cutting, engraving and welding in growing and demanding markets worldwide. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Apr 12, 2016
LightingEurope Strongly Recommends not Applying Amendments on Tolerances Before the “Single Lighting Regulation” is in Place
LightingEurope Strongly Recommends not Applying Amendments on Tolerances Before the “Single Lighting Regulation” is in Place “Lighting Europe appreciates last week’s proposal from CoolProducts in relation to halogen lamps,” said Diederik de Stoppelaar, Secretary General of LightingEurope, “but believes that such an important change goes beyond halogen lamps and will have a significant effect on all lighting products. The impact of such a change is impossible to predict and prepare at such short notice before the vote of the Regulatory Committee.“ Read more »
News-Spot | Project News | Business News | Mar 11, 2016
5000m2 LED Museum Opens in October 2016
5000m2 LED Museum Opens in October 2016 Responding to the call of national policy, Guangzhou Hongli Opto – Electronic Co., Ltd. has been committing to delivering innovation in LED (Light Emitting Diode) research and development in the past years, which has injected new blood and cultural element for the industry. Read more »
Event News | News-Spot | Feb 27, 2016
European Photonics Venture Forum
European Photonics Venture Forum The 2nd edition of the European Photonics Venture Forum (EPVF) will take place on 2 & 3 June 2016 in Eindhoven. It will bring together entrepreneurs, investors, corporates and policy makers in an intense and high-energy programme of pitching, ideas sharing, networking and direction setting. The first edition was initiated by FP7 funded project LightJumps, under coordination of James Cogan. This year the event will be an initiative of FP7 project Actphast and will be organized with the support of high-ranking members of regional, national and European photonics organisations. EPVF is organised in association with the International Photonics Event in Veldhoven on 1&2 June 2016. Read more »
News-Spot | Resources | Projects | EPIC | OLEDs | Feb 18, 2016
EPIC/Photonics 21 Announces EU Support for Photonics PPP Pilot Lines
EPIC/Photonics 21 Announces EU Support for Photonics PPP Pilot Lines Three major Pilot Lines, which help SMEs take photonics technologies from lab into market, have been launched today by the Photonics Public Private Partnership (PPP). The Pilot Lines mean that thousands of high tech SMEs in Europe - who often lack access to advanced, cost-intensive infrastructures and expertise needed to manufacture new and innovative products – will be able to take their good ideas, scale-them up and validate them with the first customers for commercial production. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 28, 2016
EPIC Activity Report 2015
EPIC Activity Report 2015 EPIC has seen another record year of very powerful growth in its membership which now counts more than 240 members across 28 countries. Yesterday, EPIC published their annual activity report for 2015. Read more »
News-Spot | IP, Reports & Roadmaps | Jan 25, 2016
Lumitech Licenses Seoul Semiconductor for PI-LED Technology Applications
Lumitech Licenses Seoul Semiconductor for PI-LED Technology Applications Seoul Semiconductor, a global leading LED components manufacturer from Korea, and the Austrian company Lumitech, a leading manufacturer of components for Human Centric Lighting announced a licensing agreement for PI-LED technology patents. These patents govern the industrial trade mark rights of Lumitech’s PI-LED technology, which can implement tunable white from 2.500 to 7.000K with perfect colour rendering in a high and constant efficiency. Based on the license agreement, Seoul Semiconductor has the right to offer tunable white components based on the leading PI-LED technology, worldwide. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Jan 13, 2016
Intertek Expands Product Certification and Quality Assurance Services
Intertek, a leading provider of quality solutions to a range of industries worldwide, announces the expansion of its ETL Mark certification to include LED decorative lighting strings. This expansion gives manufacturers and retailers a product certification alternative that quickens a product’s time to market and creates efficiencies, with the widest scope of quality assurance services available from a single provider. Read more »
Project News | News-Spot | Dec 03, 2015
Osram Illuminates Highlight of the London Design Festival 2015
Osram Illuminates Highlight of the London Design Festival 2015 "A Bullet from a Shooting Star" was the largest outdoor project of this year's London Design Festival. The high-voltage pylon installed on its head is dramatically displayed with Traxon LED luminaires and dynamic light control, and can still be viewed in London until mid-January. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Nov 26, 2015
Diwali Shines Light on Growing Global Interest on Indian LED Market
Over 250 companies from 7 countries confirm participation for LED Expo in New Delhi. Awareness and adoption of LED lights is on the rise as a variety of decorative LED lighting options were seen in city markets during Diwali. With the number of LED bulbs distributed under the Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP) crossing the 2-crore mark and generating annual savings of over Rs 1,000 crore, the festive season has pointed out bright prospects for the lighting sector. Read more »
Interview | News-Spot | Nov 25, 2015
Interview with Nick Farraway, Vice President EMEA at Cree
Interview with Nick Farraway, Vice President EMEA at Cree Cree, Inc. provides lighting-class light emitting diode (LED), lighting, and semiconductor products for power and radio-frequency (RF) applications in the United States, China, Europe, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, and internationally. Its Lighting Products segment offers LED lighting systems and bulbs for use in settings, such as office and retail space, restaurants and hospitality, schools and universities, manufacturing, healthcare, airports, municipal, residential, street lighting and parking structures, and other applications This segment sells its products to distributors, retailers, and customers. The company’s LED Products segment provides blue and green LED chip products for use in various applications, including video screens, gaming displays, function indicator lights and automotive backlights, headlamps, and directional indicators. It also offers XLamp LED components and LED modules for lighting applications; and surface mount and through-hole packaged LED products for video, signage, general illumination, transportation, gaming, and specialty lighting applications. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Nov 25, 2015
4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology
The fourth edition of the PHOTOPTICS conference (4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology) organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication) will take place from the 27th to the 29th February 2016 in Rome, Italy. Optical systems are ubiquitous in modern society, from medical sciences to space exploration, telecommunications, information processing and numerous industrial and military applications of all kinds. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 25, 2015
Regulatory Compliance Updates for the Lighting Industry
TÜV SÜD Product Service and Luger Research e.U. signed an agreement to provide the lighting sector with the latest Regulatory Compliance Updates through the LED professional media channels on a bimonthly basis. Luger Research e.U. owns the exclusive publishing rights for the European lighting market. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 10, 2015
OLEDWorks Finalizes Acquisition of Key Parts of Philips’ OLED Light Source Components Business
ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Nov. 2, 2015: OLEDWorks LLC, the leading U.S. OLED light engine and panel manufacturing company, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of key OLED assets and relevant intellectual property from Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA), the global leader in lighting. Manufacturing will continue in the existing facility in Aachen, Germany with the establishment of OLEDWorks GmbH. OLEDWorks announced this acquisition in April, 2015. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Nov 04, 2015
EPIC and ISA Cooperation - Carlos Lee Joins ISA's Council of Management
EPIC and ISA Cooperation - Carlos Lee Joins ISA's Council of Management “I am looking forward to Mr. Lee to make contribution to the ISA Council of Management as well as bring value to the ISA.” says Ms. Ling Wu, President of ISA and (International SSL Alliance) and Secretary General of CSA (China Solid State Lighting Alliance). Carlos Lee brings valuable experience from his personal semiconductor industry background, and feedback from the activities he organizes at EPIC for instance on lighting for automotive, lighting for horticulture, and many other application areas. Read more »
Featured | News-Spot | Products, Materials + Tools | Oct 28, 2015
Lumileds Accelerates Outdoor Fixture Design with Off-the-Shelf Addition to Matrix Platform, LUXEON XR-M
Lumileds Accelerates Outdoor Fixture Design with Off-the-Shelf Addition to Matrix Platform, LUXEON XR-M Designed specifically as a turnkey solution for outdoor LED fixtures, today Lumileds introduces the LUXEON XR-M line of Matrix Platform solutions. These versatile building blocks integrate 3, 4 or 5 LUXEON M LEDs on a metal core PCB, providing a platform that enables fixture manufacturers to accelerate their design of streetlights, high bay and low bay luminaires. For instance, the 4 LED square version, in combination with industry standard optics and driver, yields a complete IP66 solution. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Oct 19, 2015
LuxLive 2015: See the Very Latest in Lighting Innovation
The latest technology, the best projects and finest experts will be at LuxLive, Europe’s biggest annual lighting event, on 18-19 November at London’s ExCeL. Not only will this year’s exhibition be the biggest ever, with more than 300 exhibitors, it’ll also feature more than 80 hours of free-to-attend talks, debates and panel discussions. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Sep 17, 2015
Munich Re Insures LED Products that Have DEKRA LED Performance Approval
Munich Re’s Green Tech Solutions has developed specialized insurance solutions for the LED market, in which LED manufacturers as well as project developers can cover the financial risks resulting from guarantee conditions or technical problems. Munich Re and DEKRA expect that the willingness to invest in LED projects will increase as a result of this. Their collaboration goes further than just the insurance, with both companies exchanging knowledge about the quality of LED lighting and collaborating in developing new services for the LED market. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Sep 03, 2015
LpS 2015 Opens the Door to Future Lighting Innovations
LpS 2015 Opens the Door to Future Lighting Innovations Top authorities from the global lighting industry will present international lighting trends and technologies in 60 lectures and seven workshops at the 5th LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS 2015). Amongst the many well-known companies exhibiting at the LpS are also the top seven LED manufacturers in the world. The LpS 2015 has also been chosen by ten companies to launch their new products. The three-day lighting event will take place from September 22nd to 24th in Bregenz, Austria. The top-rate program can’t afford to be missed by anyone involved in the lighting industry or research. Read more »
News-Spot | Event News | Aug 27, 2015
Call for Papers: ITherm 2016
ITherm 2016, the fifteenth intersociety conference on thermal and thermomechanical phenomena in electronic systems, is the leading international conference for scientific and engineering exploration of thermal, thermo-mechanical and emerging technology issues associated with electronic devices, packages, and systems. Read more »
News-Spot | Business News | Aug 17, 2015
Luger Research and Messe Muenchen Announce Strategic Partnership
Luger Research and Messe Muenchen Announce Strategic Partnership Luger Research, publisher of LED professional and organizer of the LED professional Symposium +Expo (LpS), entered into a long-term partnership with Messe Muenchen, organizer of electronica, productronica and other international trade shows in the field of New Technologies. The strategic partnership is a long-term event and knowledge cooperation in the fields of Solid-State-Lighting, electronics and smart controls. Read more »
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